Public Accounts committee  Not any more, no.

Public Accounts committee  I think it's $800.

Public Accounts committee  At this point I think we've purchased.... I'd have to get back to you with the exact number. We've equipped our maximum security institutions, so there are probably about 1,500 there, and our medium security institutions.... We're probably getting up to about 3,000 or 4,000 vests

Public Accounts committee  One of the things is cleaning up what we call our roll calls, the actual paper lists of staff who are supposed to be on shift, and better recording of the staff who are coming in and the ones who are not coming in. The old paper and pencil process has been cleaned up. That is lin

Public Accounts committee  Very much so, yes.

Public Accounts committee  It plays into it. For example, if we have an inmate who slashes up or does serious self-harm and has to go to an outside hospital, because we do not have staff sitting around in the institution waiting for that to happen, we will send staff who are on duty right now to take that

Public Accounts committee  It could be at time and a half; it could be at double time.

Public Accounts committee  There are different scenarios for it, in terms of how many hours you worked or whether you're on a second day of rest. There are specific clauses that we have to respect in the collective agreement.

Public Accounts committee  Sometimes that occurs, when we have the substitute officers. But because, as I mentioned earlier, we've been running with a significant number of vacancies across the country, we haven't even had the substitute officers available to backfill.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, and again it depends on the scenario whether the roster is full and all the vacancies filled. A place, for example, such as Sept-Îles has fewer posts than a place like Kingston Penitentiary. Everything being equal, if I have staff who book off at Kingston Pen.... I may not e

Public Accounts committee  Kingston Penitentiary is that old, yes.

Public Accounts committee  The short answer is that a place like Kingston Penitentiary is not an ideal setting, from many different perspectives. It's not conducive to delivering modern correctional practices. It was built in a different era, under a different philosophy, which was basically to lock up pri

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The short answer to the second question is that the Kingston Immigration Holding Centre, although it's on our property and our staff work there, is actually under the banner of the Canada Border Services Agency. So the operations and decisions having anythi

Public Accounts committee  At this point we continue to operate it until future decisions are made. We try to make the best of an old facility. I tip my hat to my staff who work in that environment, because it's a challenging environment to work in. We hope, with the planning going forward, that we're able

Public Accounts committee  Just very quickly, Mr. Chair, Correctional Service Canada and I personally have found the report to be extremely useful in pointing to areas to which we need to give a lot of time and attention. We clearly understand the need for the three-part balance reported on by the Auditor